March/April 2004
Table of Contents
Cover Story
- Divining Dixie
Is it another country? A Yankee journalist gets lost and found in the South. By Jacob Levenson
Articles
- Chasing the Ghouls
A reporter haunted by the Juarez serial murders. By John Burnett - Muckraker 90210
The unrelenting reporter who took down Erin Brockovich. By Eric Umansky - Players
An honest job description for the political press. By Jay Rosen - The Editorial Pages and the Case for War
Did our major papers set the bar too low? By Chris Mooney - Baghdad Diary
- In Their Skin
What the Iraqis think really matters. Four reporters discuss the challenge of figuring it out. By Gal Beckerman - TV Hits Hyperdrive
Why the digital dawn looks rosy By Neil Hickey - The Taming of the Review
A dispatch from Russia’s deadliest city for journalists. By Rebecca Santana
Voices
- Ted Gup
A Question of Dependence - Douglas McCollam
On the Line - Shari Waxman
Heroes and Villains - Neil Hickey
Big Brother News? - Steve Brodner
The Artichoke’s Last Word - Geoffrey Gray
Scene: The (Still) Sweet Science
Book Reviews
- Endless Assignment: Nine perspectives from the edge of hell
Books by Chris Hedges, Michelle Ferrari, David Maraniss, Douglas Brinkley, Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, Janine di Giovanni, Anne Garrels, Thomas Goltz, John Laurence
Reviewed by Jonathan Z. Larsen - Spin Sisters
By Myrna Blyth. Reviewed by Andie Tucher - Book Reports
By James Boylan
Departments
- Opening Shot
- Comment
- Currents
Fox Watch: MoveOn.org members take bias-watching into their living rooms.
Digital Politics: Plumbing the Net's Power - Darts & Laurels
- Language Corner: Sensible Notion
- Spotlight
- Letters
- American Newsroom: NPR's This American Life
- The Lower Case
